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ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC

ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,385,651 to it, the largest being Luke 638 Foundation ($1,460,351). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.8M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
$328k
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Alabama Symphonic Association Inc does

Mission

Provide public classical and pops musical performances throughout alabama featuring diverse selections of musical programing and provide organized musical education programs focused

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide musical performances and education to the general public.

    $5,891,388 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,891,388.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 88 ($6.5M) Expenses 90 ($6.4M) Net assets 102 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 92 ($6.8M) Expenses 94 ($6.7M) Net assets 114 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 65 ($4.8M) Expenses 87 ($6.2M) Net assets 11 ($138k)2021 Revenue 77 ($5.7M) Expenses 53 ($3.7M) Net assets 169 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 76 ($5.6M) Expenses 79 ($5.6M) Net assets 169 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 76 ($5.6M) Expenses 89 ($6.3M) Net assets 115 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 80 ($6.0M) Expenses 97 ($6.9M) Net assets 44 ($567k)2025 Revenue 91 ($6.8M) Expenses 99 ($7.0M) Net assets 26 ($328k)
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Revenue (91)Expenses (99)Net assets (26)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $2.8M (+139%).

$2.4M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$1.2M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$2.0M
$1.2M
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 2% · 2021 38% · 2022 14% · 2023 6% · 2024 9% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$337k
’17
$145k
’18
$158k
’19
−$1.3M
’20
$2.0M
’21
−$2k
’22
−$684k
’23
−$905k
’24
−$238k
’25
0.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Danny Mckinney

Director, chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed255247484642424242
Joined·+32+6+3+5+3+1+11+0
No longer listed·5112771110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $238k → $479k.

11 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $15M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alabama Symphony Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 33% · 2019 34% · 2020 45% · 2021 52% · 2022 49% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

43% of ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 5 states in all.

NY
DE
NC
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $647k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 9%Fundraising 7%

Governance

39
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Alabama Symphony Endowment · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC?
ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,385,651 to it, the largest being Luke 638 Foundation ($1,460,351). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,385,651 in grants to ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC?
Luke 638 Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,460,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing